Innovations in Eating

If you are someone who has read this blog more than ten times you should know by now that dieting is about your brain, not your stomach.  The old saying mind over matter is true in the case of trying to eat more healthy food and less in general.

There are many tried and true tricks to help trick you mind into thinking you have had more food, like using a smaller plate and filling it full.  You brain thinks, “Wow, am I ever getting a lot of food.”  Another suggested trick is to use chops sticks to slow your eating down.  That only works if you are not a master chop sticker.  Unfortunately for me I learned long ago how to really shovel the food in with chop sticks so I have to skip that trick.  Another idea is to try and eat with your wrong hand.  On a good day, with my dominant hand I usually spill something on my shirt right at boob level so in the interest of not drawing attention to my stained wardrobe I am going to keep using my right hand.

All these ideas are old and tired to me, but while putting away some silver flat ware in my silver chest I stumbled upon a tiny demitasse spoon and an itty-bitty pickle fork no longer than my middle finger.  Now here is a real slower-downer in the eating dinner department.  Using these doll-sized utensils would ensure that I never finish a meal.  I am sure that at mouse bite speed I would eventually give up eating before I cleaned my plate or fall asleep trying.

I am sure that I also would actually never even taste the food because the drop of soup the spoon could hold would not be big enough to have any flavor.  This could really free me up from cooking since it would not matter what was on the mini plate I prepared.

I will start testing these utensils tonight.  If it works I am going into the tiny fork manufacturing business. Tiny spoons, like the tasting ones at ice cream stores have been around forever, but tiny forks are a wide open market. I think that this might also work for the over weight Asian community. Two toothpicks could make the perfect tiny chop stick pair.  Think how long it would take you to eat fried rice using them.

Any other hints are welcome.  Remember to think outside the box like Willy Wonka did with the flavored wallpaper and the whole meal in a stick of gum.